Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray and state Treasurer Steven Grossman also are scheduled to attend the funeral, which is expected to draw hundreds of mourners, including firefighters from across the Bay State.

Rice, 42, died last Friday, Dec. 23, after inhaling toxic fumes while battling a three-alarm apartment building fire, according to Peabody Fire Chief Steven Padson.

On Thursday, hundreds of firefighters, police officers, public safety officials and well-wishers attended a wake for Rice, including the family of Worcester firefighter Jon Davies, who was killed on duty earlier this month.

Rice, an 11-year veteran of the Peabody Fire Department, was killed while fighting the 1:30 p.m. fire inside a multi-unit home on Hancock Street in the North Shore city. He was pronounced dead later at a nearby Salem hospital.

Rice, who leaves a wife and three children, was loved and would be greatly missed, Padson said.

Meanwhile, Davies, 43, died in a Worcester fire about two weeks before the fatal Peabody fire.

Davies died after the rear of a burning building collapsed on him, officials said. He and another firefighter were searching the empty building for a possible tenant.

State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan said the Peabody fire is under investigation by state police troopers assigned to his office, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives and Peabody firefighters.

Material from the Associated Press, Boston Globe and The Republican was used in this report.